Old Peter's Russian Tales

Reprint, first thus. 309 pages + 1 of ads. A small pocket-sized edition, firmly bound in the publisher's full red leather binding, lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine, the leather is slightly marked and rubbed and the spine is age toned. The text block is lightly age toned, there are some light spots of foxing, minor marks and a couple of dog-eared corners. Remarkably, the book retains its original protective card slipcase, covered in the publisher's red patterned 1798 paper, it is toned, marked, bumped, rubbed and faded, and beginning to split at points. Ransome's excellent and highly successful collection of Russian folklore tales, reworked for an English audience. Its first appearance in this format and this a remarkably well-preserved example, looking to have been little read.